Seat stress analysis

[omar elhelw]

Hello everybody ,
i want to make stress analysis for our seat in 3 scenarios ,
acceleration, braking and crashing..
there is any useful tutorials or previous experience that help in such topic.

thanks in advance,
Omar

[Meer]

1. Make assumption regarding braking and cornering accelerations.
2. Compute inertial forces of the driver's mass
3. Find the major force application areas from the driver into the seat. My guess would be a) Buttocks b) hips c) shoulders.
4. Apply pressure in your FEM model, in the direction of acceleration in each load case.

Not that I have any experience on the problem, but that's how I would go about solving it.

Regards,
Myron